We all have our preferred way of doing things on our boats. :) As a racer and long time foredeck, I fold all my headsails with the luff tape on top of itself. If you do what I call a "cruiser fold" with the folds parallel to the foot and the head ending up in the middle, you risk ripping the luff tape when you launch the head sail. The tape will have to come from well aft of the pre-feeder or feeder and make a sharp bend from horizontal to vertical before feeding up the track. An overly enthusiastic crewperson jumping the sail might cause the luff tape to rip off.
The way you do it is to take a "half" fold at the luff only. This will "cock" the sail slightly. After the half fold, match the folds with the luff laying on top of itself. The leech will form a sawtooth as the leech folder works his/her way towards the luff. The head is then folded to lie next to the tack. When launching, the foredeck can easily find and hook up the tack and head. The luff tape should lay well forward in the bow pulpit an be directly under the pre-feeder/feeder so it hoists straight up without bending. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:09 AM Rick Brass via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > And I fold my hank on sails with a different pattern than the sails with > luff tape. With a luff tape, each fold is parallel to the foot of the sail > and the head of the sail ends up approximately in the middle of the sail > before I start rolling it up. But when I was learning to sail on Lake > Michigan 5 decades ago with hank on sails, I learned to fold the sail > perpendicular to the luff so all the hanks were exposed. That way you could > put the sail down on the deck, connect the tack, put all the hanks on the > Headstay, and then just unroll the sail and hoist. And that minimizes the > time you need to stand on the pointy end of the boat for a sail change. > > > >
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